Associate Professor Sally McCormick

Sally is an Associate Professor in the Biochemistry Department at Otago. She received her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from Lincoln University having performed her PhD studies at the Christchurch School of Medicine. Her postdoctoral studies were undertaken at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease in San Francisco.

Her research interests include the study of families with inherited lipid disorders, the characterisation of genes involved in early atherosclerosis, lipoprotein proteomics and the identification of novel lipid-lowering agents.

Teaching

Sally teaches in GENE 411 Current Topics in Genetics.

Recent Publications

Murphy, A.J., McCormick, S.P.A. et al. High-Density Lipoprotein Reduces the Human Monocyte Inflammatory Response. Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology 28, 2071-U313 (2008).

Slatter, T.L., Jones, G.T., Williams, M.J.A., van Rij, A.M. & McCormick, S.P.A. Novel rare mutations and promoter haplotypes in ABCA1 contribute to low-HDL-C levels. Clinical Genetics 73, 179-184 (2008).

Sviridov, D., McCormick, S.P.A. et al. High-density lipoprotein reduces the human monocyte inflammatory response through ATP-binding cassette transporter A1. in 9th Annual Conference on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology P128 (Atlanta, GA, 2008).

Wang, Y.T., von Zychlinski, A. & McCormick, S.P.A. Dimyristoylphosphotidylcholine induces conformational changes in apoB that lowers lipoprotein(a). Journal of Lipid Research 50, 846-853 (2009).